Debt and Zakat
340 questions
To what extent is it permissible for the head of a student association to collect Zakat and spend it on the needs of students (such as food, accommodation, and building a school and its facilities) without their代理 (wakala) in either case?
What is the ruling on disposing of Zakat funds that are undecided as to whether they should be disbursed by the bank, given to a patient with kidney failure, or to a widow with young children, or to a divorced sister with two children, or to search for another deserving recipient, or to keep them?
Does zakat become obligatory on an agricultural yield of five qintars, and if it does, how is it calculated, keeping in mind that we do not pay zakat unless it reaches ten qintars?
How is the Zakat calculated for a plot of land sold in installments, knowing that each installment does not reach the minimum threshold (nisab)?
How can I pay Zakat for past years, taking into account my ignorance of the amount of my wealth during those periods, and my current financial inability to pay it?
What is the ruling on a deferred dowry for the wife; is zakat due on it, and how?
Is it permissible for an agent to keep a portion of zakat funds paid to relatives to contribute to a future, unspecified surgery for one of them, and how should these retained funds be handled?
Is it permissible to give zakat to a poor debtor, by deducting his debt from the zakat amount after informing him of that, if the giver of zakat is one of his creditors?
Is Zakat obligatory upon the debtor?
Is it permissible to consider digging wells in drought-stricken areas such as Sudan among the channels for Zakat?
Is it obligatory to pay the shop's Zakat for the past five years, or is it to be paid only for the current year, given that paying it for previous years will reduce the capital? And is Zakat paid only from the profit or from the entire capital?
Is it permissible to give Zakat as equipment to someone working in that field (computer, recorder), and is it permissible for a worker to perform a service without charge and consider it as Zakat (such as a doctor treating a needy person, or a carpenter and a painter helping a needy person and deducting the amount from Zakat)?
Is it permissible to give zakat to needy brothers or sisters who are supported by their father?
Is Zakat obligatory on a monthly salary, and what is its amount? Is it permissible to give it as a perpetual charity by photographing supplications and distributing them?
Should zakat be paid for previous years of debt, or to settle the debts of people first, given that the available amount is not sufficient for both?
Is the Omani Rial 1,412 given to the daughter of an alcoholic, unemployed man considered part of the Zakat, or should it be given to someone else?
What are the eight categories for the distribution of Zakat, and is it permissible to give it to the wife's relatives, such as a needy mother-in-law, or is it restricted to the husband's relatives, and is it permissible to give it to a brother who is capable of working but unemployed and has a family?
Is it permissible for the Imam and Preacher, who has been entrusted with distributing zakat funds, to take from them to pay off his debt, considering he is among those in debt (al-gharimin) and unable to repay his debt, without informing the owners of the zakat?
Do the children of a deceased sister, whose father has passed away and who have no provider, deserve zakat? Are they more deserving of kindness?
Is it permissible for a well-off brother to pay the zakat on his wealth to his financially struggling brother who lives with his mother in the family home, knowing that the mother covers the general household expenses but not the personal expenses of her son and his family, and that this struggling brother sometimes works, owns a small grocery store, and is in debt?
What are ta'zir punishments, and when are they carried out?
Is it permissible to pay Zakat for past years from the inheritance after the death of the testator who did not pay it during his lifetime?
Is zakat obligatory on a plot of land that yields no income and is still being paid for in installments? If so, what is the value upon which zakat is due?
What are the rights related to inheritance, with details and evidence for them from the the Qur’an and Sunnah?